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By Ellen Nakashima – The National Security Agency has pushed repeatedly over the past year to expand its role in protecting private-sector computer networks from cyberattacks but has been rebuffed by the White House, largely because of privacy concerns, according to administration officials and internal documents.
The proposal drew on a Pentagon pilot program launched last year in which Internet service providers used the NSA’s library of threat data to scan e-mails and other computer traffic flowing to and from the nation’s top defense contractors . That program was a response to fears that foreign spy services were using cyber-technology to steal corporate or U.S. military secrets.
A Pentagon-commissioned report in November validated the concept but said the effectiveness of such an approach remained uncertain.
The NSA, however, saw the program as a model for expanding its role in protecting other potentially significant targets of cyberattacks. more> http://is.gd/l3jsE0
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